{"id":232705,"date":"2025-09-17T01:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/232705\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T01:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:59:14","slug":"queen-camilla-says-she-is-sick-hours-before-trump-arrives-in-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/232705\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla Says She Is Sick Hours Before Trump Arrives in U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Camilla<\/a> could miss elements of Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> state visit to the U.K. after a fresh health crisis hit the British royal family Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Astonishingly, after the queen pulled out of a high-profile family funeral, citing \u201cacute sinusitis,\u201d just hours before Air Force One was due to land in London, Buckingham Palace could not rule out that she would not skip any elements of Trump\u2019s state visit. <\/p>\n

While insisting the queen was \u201crecovering\u201d from the virus, the best the palace could say about her attendance at this week\u2019s events was that she \u201chopes\u201d to be present at them all.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentA friend of Queen Camilla\u2019s insisted to the Daily Beast that she would never try to snub Trump. Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

The move immediately raised suspicions on social media that Camilla was trying to wriggle out of being pictured alongside Trump. <\/p>\n

A friend of Camilla\u2019s told the Daily Beast that there was \u201cno way\u201d Camilla would try to snub Trump and that she would not want to let her husband down.<\/p>\n

The palace said Camilla had traveled from Scotland, where she and Charles had spent several weeks, to Windsor on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

She had been due to attend the funeral of the Duchess of Kent, who was married to the late Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s first cousin, along with her husband and other senior royals. The Duchess of Kent was a Catholic who quit her royal duties to become a music teacher, and a message from Pope Leo was read out during the service.<\/p>\n

\"KingCamilla was absent from the funeral of the Duchess of Kent, with Prince Andrew, King Charles, Prince William, and Kate Middleton appearing outside the church after the service. Ilyas Tayfun Salci\/Anadolu via Getty Images <\/p>\n

Among the attendees was disgraced Prince Andrew. His appearance was yet another reminder of the slew of problems facing King Charles, who is himself battling cancer.<\/p>\n

The palace issued a statement just before the funeral, saying, \u201cWith great regret, Her Majesty The Queen has withdrawn from attendance at this afternoon\u2019s Requiem Mass for The Duchess of Kent as she is recovering from acute sinusitis. Her thoughts and prayers will be with The Duke of Kent and all the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The palace further briefed journalists that Camilla \u201chopes to have recovered sufficiently to attend all elements of the State Visit and this week\u2019s other engagements in what is scheduled to be a very busy program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camilla\u2019s decision to skip the funeral is one thing, but to let it be known that she has been very unwell risks\u2014notwithstanding her \u201chopes\u201d to take part in the whole state visit\u2014being interpreted as a political gambit if she ends up not joining the public elements of the Trump visit, and thereby avoiding having to stand next to the controversial president in photographs. <\/p>\n

She did meet him during his 2019 state visit.<\/p>\n

\"Camilla,Camilla, then Duchess of Cornwall, met Trump on Dec. 3, 2019. Geoff Pugh\/Pool\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

The packed schedule this time sees the president and first lady Melania Trump spending a full 24 hours at Windsor Castle as guests of the royals, but much of the time the two couples are scheduled to spend together will be behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

Asked if Camilla was pre-baking an excuse to snub Trump, a friend of Camilla\u2019s told the Daily Beast: \u201cThere is no way she would shirk her duty. She knows how important this is to the government and her husband. Her job is supporting him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla could miss elements of Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to the U.K. after a fresh health crisis…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[108315,77,171,186,45981,13754,4170,120633,125368,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-232705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-donald-j-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-king-charles-iii","13":"tag-melania-trump","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-queen-camilla","16":"tag-royalist","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115217168476411751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}